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Welcome to the NICE eNewsletter
 Welcome! My name is Christine Hysell, and I am a Summer Undergraduate Intern with the NICE program office. During the school year, I work in the Cyber Security Center at California State University, San Bernardino. I am a double major in public policy and theatre arts at the University of Redlands and have a non-technical background. At first, I wasn’t sure how much help I could provide on any cybersecurity-related issues. However, policy and cybersecurity are tightly interwoven, as shown in several of the articles featured in this publication. Growing the workforce and strengthening cybersecurity education are vital issues that have raced to the forefront. NICE supports these efforts through collaboration with academia, industry, and government and through newsletters, webinars, the NICE Framework, and many other methods. I hope to aid in this endeavor, both now and in the future, in whatever way I can. Enjoy the information provided in this eNewsletter and have a wonderful summer!
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Christine Hysell
Undergraduate Intern, NICE
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Playing to Win: Gamification, Code Challenges and Hackathons in the Employment Marketplace
by Bradley Wolfenden, Director, Cyber Academic Partnerships, Circadence Corporation; John Bersentes, Vice President, Client Strategy, MarCom Group, Inc.
We learn about the world through play. We learn to create, to share, to challenge ourselves and others. Through playing, we keep learning. The use of game-based learning, code challenges, and other cyber competitions address and develop skills in the computing-based discipline of cybersecurity, which includes interdisciplinary aspects of law, policy, human factors, ethics, and risk management in the context of dealing with adversaries. It allows employers to create ways to make learning, team building, and skill-proving fun. Read More
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 NICE Framework in Focus
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A profile of a cybersecurity practitioner to illustrate application of
the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework categories, specialty areas, and work roles.
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CATEGORY: Securely Provision
Conceptualizes, designs, procures, and/or builds secure information technology (IT) systems, with responsibility for aspects of system and/or network development.
 NAME: Julia Chua
TITLE: Manager, Risk Management Program, Office of Information Security
ORGANIZATION: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
SPECIALTY AREA: Risk Management
WORK ROLE: Authorizing Official/Designating Representative
ACADEMIC DEGREE: Bachelor of Science in Finance, University of Maryland, College Park
CERTIFICATIONS: Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Authorization Professional (CAP)
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 Using the NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework to Develop a Cybersecurity Legal Awareness Course
by Dr. Jim Chen, Professor of Cybersecurity, DoD National Defense University; Mary Lin, National Defense University
Curiosity sometimes leads people to try risky things in online environments. However, experimental inquisitiveness online can have real world consequences. If unaware of these secondary effects, some may unintentionally violate laws by clicking on the wrong buttons, ads, or attachments, thereby executing malicious functions of an application. Read More
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 As Cyberattacks Diversify,
Those Leading the Defense Must as Well
by Debra McLaughlin, Sr. Manager, Corporate Responsibility, Symantec
The cybersecurity landscape is constantly changing. Businesses and individuals alike must be able to outmaneuver and defend themselves from ever-evolving threats. Both the people and the technology we rely upon need to mount a defense that maintains that pace and doesn’t become complacent. Read More
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 State CIOs and CISOs Highlight Unique-To-Government Benefits to Recruit and Retain IT and Cybersecurity Professionals
by Yejin Jang, Director of Government Affairs, NASCIO
CNAP
describes a series of near-term actions to enhance cybersecurity capabilities
within the Federal government and across the country while putting in place a
long-term strategy to enhance cybersecurity awareness and protections, protect
privacy, maintain public safety, economic and national security, and empower
Americans to take better control of their digital security. Read More
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 Efforts are underway to develop a draft mapping between the Cybersecurity Framework’s 108 subcategories and the NICE Workforce Framework work roles that will assist organizations in making progress towards achieving improved cybersecurity.
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 CyberSeek has been updated to include new data collected from April 2017 to March 2018. This new data indicates there are over 301,000 open jobs in cybersecurity across the nation, including over 13,000 openings in the public sector.
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 The Cyber Range project team, under the Training and Certifications subgroup, began to meet again under the leadership of Joe Adams, Vice President of Research and Cybersecurity at Merit Network.
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